While the legendary 25th year celebration of Wacken is fresh in minds, W:O:A 2015 is gonna be just as awesome. The festival will take place between 30.07.2015 and 01.08.2015. Achieving the 10th consecutive sold-out show, W:O:A will host crazy acts again.

Morgoth started their career as a death metal band, peaked with their 1991 album Cursed, ventured for industrial metal in 1996, apologized to their fans through their album title (Feel Sorry for the Fanatic) and finally disbanded. I had been looking for the slightest sign of their union until they returned with a live album in 2012. 2015 is the year they have crowned their reunion with a studio album. They absolutely deserve to play at Wacken, in their homeland, this year and that’s what’s gonna happen. Brace yourselves for Morgoth!

This will be the only show for the band in 2015. The band announced the end of their career in 2009 and played a “wild” two-hour farewell show in W:O:A 2009. Of course, they decided to come back and released an average album. Now they will take the stage in 2015. Running Wild should be watched even if they play every day. If they play once a year, you must definitely be there!

Much like Amorphis, Samael will perform a special show in honor of their 1994 album Ceremony of the Opposites. The setlist will probably be made up of this album but it would be cool to hear some stuff from the mighty Passage.

In my opinion, Savatage is the real highlight of this year. I was waiting for a band in W:O:A 2014 when the band was announced. I was shocked to see the Savatage logo on the screen. The band played until 2003 after the death of Chris Oliva and then disbanded and continued as Trans-Siberian Orchestra. Their last W:O:A performance was in 2002. The band is returning to destroy Wacken 13 year later.

Grubun 2015’te Avrupa’da vereceği tek konser olduğu için önemli.

An important show as it will be the only European show of the band in 2015.